Theorizing Glissant Sites and Citations [Paperback]

Theorizing Glissant highlights the philosophical anchor of Glissants work. ?The collection comprises essays on Glissants key concepts; essays that link his work to contemporary philosophical notions; and essays focusing on specific works. ?In the first category is a discussion of Glissants notion of opacit? and the urge to reconceptualize identity as dictated by performance through resistance, discontinuities, and adaptations.? In the second, Glissants work is methodically highlighted as linked to prominent philosophical ideas: Bergsons duration; Deleuze and Guattaris difference, being, and becoming; Luce Irigarays sexual difference and creolization with the trace of sexual difference & marked in two absences. ?Among the essays on specific works is a reading of The Ripening through Husserls phenomenological principles leading to the implementation of conceived ideas, or contre-action aggissante. Identity has to be sought in the hic and nunc without disregard to all its negotiated, sedimentary elements. This allows him to be critical of C?saire and the negritude?tenets of return. ?In sum, this important critique situates Glissants work within the framework of the ongoing modern debate on identity, the influx of various cultural trends, and creolization. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations makes an important contribution to the field of Caribbean studies through a nuanced and diverse examination of the keywords that lie at the core of ?douard Glissants vast oeuvre. The book reads as a sort of guide through the central tropes, poetic aims, political contexts, and philosophical questions that motivate the Martinicans thought.... [T]his book should be of interest not only for Caribbean scholars but also for those involved in philosophy, critical theory, literature, and cultural studies, as well as scholars engaged with racial and ethnic matters.Theorizing Glissant is the first book in EngllS†